Chapter 522: Uncertainties (1/2)

Chapter 522: Uncertainties

“I don’t blame you,” Nie Tian said with a calm and expressionless face. “Even if you didn’t call out my name, I still would have summoned my Flame Dragon Armor.

“As you just said, the earthflame essence and earthflame crystal strings will be very helpful to my Flame Dragon Armor. I would have gathered them anyways, even at the price of revealing my identity.”

Qin Yan pursed her lips into a smile and her watery eyes glittered with gracious light. “Thank you for being so understanding. I’d be even more grateful if you would help me in the future when my life is in danger.”

With these words, she turned around and walked towards the area where everyone was gathered under Dong Li’s furious gaze.

“What right does she have to demand help from Nie Tian?” Dong Li still sounded very angry. “I knew she deliberately provoked dissension between Nie Tian and Gu Haofeng.”

“Alright, alright,” Dong Baijie said. “We’re all from the Realm of a Hundred Battles. You’ll still need to cooperate on many occasions. You’ve been friends with her for many years. Don’t ruin all that just because of this one incident.”

Dong Li snorted coldly and said, “I might have to reconsider how I treat her from now on.”

Nie Tian, however, didn’t pay any attention to Dong Li’s complaint. With Yang Kan gone and the two Flame God Sect disciples killed, the crisis was temporarily relieved. Therefore, he dropped to the ground.

After a brief examination of himself, he learned that, even though his battle against Yang Kan had been very short, he had consumed a significant amount of strength.

Considering that he wasn’t sure if new challenges would come up later in this strange place, he needed to recover his strength as quickly as possible.

Just as he was about to recuperate with spiritual materials of different attributes, Qian Xin from the Pill Pavilion Sect came over.

“What do you want, Qian Xin?” Dong Li asked with a frown.

Since she wasn’t very close with him, she didn’t know his intentions in approaching Nie Tian.

Qian Xin was known for his maturity among the junior leaders from the Realm of the Hundred Battles.

He had never been very close or very distant with anyone. He had never had any friends he truly trusted.

Qian Xin came to a stop before Nie Tian, took out a grayish-brown skull, and handed to him. “Nie Tian, this is something I looted from Chang Yuan. But since he wasn’t one of the Spirit God Sect’s core disciples, he didn’t have many valuables on him. This is the one I think is the most valuable.”

“Chang Yuan?” Dong Baijie asked, eyes narrowed.

“I ran into him on my way here. Later, Nie Tian came along and helped me kill him.” After a moment of hesitation, he added, “In fact, Nie Tian was the one who killed him.”

Dong Baijie nodded. “I see.”

After realizing that Qian Xin had only come to share loot with him, Nie Tian smiled at him as he grabbed the skull.

However, his expression flickered as soon as he sent a wisp of soul power into it.

He found, to his surprise, that a ferocious discarnate soul was living inside the skull. The moment his soul awareness entered the skull, he experienced an ice-cold and malicious aura, which almost swayed his judgment.

“Even Chang Yuan himself wasn’t able to refine the discarnate soul in the skull, so it appears to still be sealed in there.” Qian Xin must have already examined the skull. “I don’t know much about psychic magics, but I saw that you seemed quite skilled when you were dealing with Chang Yan’s psychic attacks, so I thought perhaps you could harness or make some use of this discarnate soul.”

After a brief scan, Nie Tian put the skull away in his ring of holding and said, smiling, “Thanks a lot, though I also don’t know what to do with it for now.”

Qian Xin also handed him a dozen crimson stones and said, “These fire-attributed materials belonged to those two Flame God Sect disciples we just killed. Here, take them.”

Dong Li’s eyes lit up as she exclaimed softly, “Heavenflame Stones!”

Then, she looked Qian Xin in the eye and asked, “Did Cao Qiushui, Gu Haofeng, or the others say anything when you told them that you were going to give these Heavenflame Stones to Nie Tian?”

Slightly surprised, Nie Tian received the dozen Heavenflame Stones with two hands.

Heavenflame Stones were sixth level Premium grade fire-attributed spiritual materials, and were even more precious than Flame Crystals. It was said that Heavenflame Stones came from fire-attributed meteors that crashed into the Domain of the Falling Stars. They could either be used to forge many fire-attributed spiritual tools or to recover flame power.

They were very valuable, so even those two Flame God Sect disciples must have gone to great lengths to get them.

Qian Xin must be giving the most valuable loot they had gained from those men to Nie Tian. Dong Li doubted that Cao Qiushui, Gu Haofeng, and the others didn’t have a problem with it.

“If Nie Tian didn’t break the Spiritual Hexaflame Formation with his Flame Dragon Armor, none of us would even have been able to come in here,” Qian Xin said with a serious expression. “It was him who let us in, saved Qin Yan and Feng Ying, and forced Yang Kan to escape. It’s our rule that whoever makes the biggest contribution be rewarded with the most valuable battle gains. What can they say about that?”

“That’s good,” Dong Li said with a smile.

Qian Xin nodded at Nie Tian, Dong Li, and Dong Baijie, before turning around and heading towards the area where the other Pill Pavilion Sect disciples were gathered.

“That Qian Xin seems to be a nice person,” Nie Tian said.

Dong Li curled her lips. “He’s not a popular guy. None of my operations with him ended up very pleasant.” Then, with a smile, she added, “But I didn’t expect that he would actually treat you so well.”